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      Communication on Contemporary Anthropology, 2013, 7, 114-118/ e18 xy z X doi:10.4236/coca.2013.71018 Published Online Dec 18, 2013 FOCUS Gesture might have laid foundations for the emergence of spoken languages Peng QIAN Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China Email: 11300110010@ Received: Sep.22, 2013; revised: Nov.10, 2013; accepted: Dec.14, 2013 Focused on: Sterelny K (2012) Language, gesture, skill: the co-evolutionary foundations of language. Phil Trans R Soc B, 367:2141-2151. Abstract: Although